Yesterday my Yabb 2.3.1 forum was attacked by a spam search engine. It registered behind a proxy and has produced great troubles.This morning the forum was down.

First I have re-installed some files and it looks to work but aftewards I realized the navigation bar in the index page had disappeared.After all this trouble I have reinstalled a forum backup, but the problem is still on and I don't know what can I do.At now I can enter the admin zone only because I had saved a link, but I cannot achieve the same by the forum-home navigation-bar because all its links have disappeared.I don't know what can I do. Anyone can tell me if erroneous permission can prevent the navigation bar display?What are the files controlling that?Can be possible something on the server has been changed (my web site profit a shared hosting service)?Thanks

I must add another information: in the 'Template configuration' of the 'admin center' I no more see the templates displayed, but I can see it in the style sheet section and here also the navigation bar is displayed in the customization window.

in cgi-bin/yabb2/Templates/default/ can you look for default.html then copy this to your pc and rename this to default.txt and post it here so i can have a look at it or pm me your ftp login info and i will se what i can do also has your forum got any mods installed on it ?

YaBB install help video1. what yabb forum are you running and the url2. describe in as much detail as you can what happens and also post screenshots if you can3. please be patient we live in different time zones and have other commitments but we will help youas bill and ted say (Be excellent to each other)

I could send the default template to you but I cannot post it on the board because it contains links to my web-site. Time ago I modified it to place my web site logos, anyway nothing has been recently changed in this page. I have two other forum with the same modified template but they still work.So I thought about the permissions of some file related to the navigation bar, because today it doesn't display. About mods I installed someone, but afterwards I updated the forum without caring of them. So I couldn't confirm if at now they are still online. Thanks

YaBB install help video1. what yabb forum are you running and the url2. describe in as much detail as you can what happens and also post screenshots if you can3. please be patient we live in different time zones and have other commitments but we will help youas bill and ted say (Be excellent to each other)

I have restored the original template but the navigation bar is still away.

Please can you tell me if I have to maintain the yabb logo above on the page? In that case I would create a new teplate mantaining also the Yabb logo placed above (the one in the foot is still there from the beginning).Thanks

YaBB install help video1. what yabb forum are you running and the url2. describe in as much detail as you can what happens and also post screenshots if you can3. please be patient we live in different time zones and have other commitments but we will help youas bill and ted say (Be excellent to each other)

_Thank you for your answers_, I will try to reinstall the original files, since I don't update the forum from long time ago, because of the lacking of the Italian translation.

sorry for any confusion caused what i meant was as long as the copyright stays intact you are good now all i need is to have a look at the file i asked for or your ftp login info so i can see what is up with your forum and get it fixed for you

YaBB install help video1. what yabb forum are you running and the url2. describe in as much detail as you can what happens and also post screenshots if you can3. please be patient we live in different time zones and have other commitments but we will help youas bill and ted say (Be excellent to each other)

Today I have made many attempt to get solution to my problems but without result:- I have upgraded to 2.5 and then downgraded again to 2.3.1.- I have uploaded many backups and also tried to change permissions to some files also without result.- I have tried to talk to the online service of my server provider and restore comprehensive file permissions by means of an automatic tool they provide, but also without result.- Endly I noticed there are some server error in the latest logs of my site, only a page they allow me to see.

Today I have made many attempt to get solution to my problems but without result:- I have upgraded to 2.5 and then downgraded again to 2.3.1.- I have uploaded many backups and also tried to change permissions to some files also without result.- I have tried to talk to the online service of my server provider and restore comprehensive file permissions by means of an automatic tool they provide, but also without result.- Endly I noticed there are some server error in the latest logs of my site, only a page they allow me to see.

ok from this info it may help more if you can set me up as a admin on the forum and also pm me your ftp logon info so i can see what is going on for you and see about getting you back up and running

YaBB install help video1. what yabb forum are you running and the url2. describe in as much detail as you can what happens and also post screenshots if you can3. please be patient we live in different time zones and have other commitments but we will help youas bill and ted say (Be excellent to each other)

I'm sorry, I'm sure you are very good person but I cannot give you access to the system. I'm obliged to the rule of the server provider.I can send you more foto, or backuped files.Now I can add a picture showing how it apeared the forum after the attack.Anyway thanks for your answer

ok what is the url of that screenshot as from the look of that you have been hacked ok one way i can help is if you can make a folder on your pc on your pc name it forumbackup then ftp into your host then in in the cgi-bin/ copy yabb2 to forumbackup on your pc then in your html root find yabbfiles and also copy this to forumbackup on your pc then on your pc make a forumbackup.zip and then copy forumbackup to forumbackup.zip then upload this somewhere and pm me here or click the email icon on this post and send me the link so i can fix your forum for you

YaBB install help video1. what yabb forum are you running and the url2. describe in as much detail as you can what happens and also post screenshots if you can3. please be patient we live in different time zones and have other commitments but we will help youas bill and ted say (Be excellent to each other)

I'm very sorry but I cannot put clear the private data of the users, their messages and any other variable data file, so the only thing I can release are the files from the source, admin, template, language, modules directories.